Benjamin Cogan

Co-founder of Agora, a DTC e-commerce aggregator ($32M raised). Co-founder of Beanstalk, the conference for the top 1,500 consumer brands. Co-founded Hubble Contacts ($72M raised, hundreds of millions in revenue). Advisor at Mockingbird Strollers. Based in New York.

The Iran war is obviously bad for e-commerce. Why? It’s oil, but not just in the way you’d think. Higher oil prices hit e-commerce through shipping costs, then through production and input costs, and then through weaker demand and a worse r